Abbreviations and conventions
Maps: the Caucasus; range of Nakh and Vainakh speech; Ingushetia
Number of speakers, geography, history of written language, sources
The position of Ingush in Nakh and Nakh-Daghestanian
Dialects, variation, and language ideology
Sociolinguistic issues:
passive bilingualism and the Chechen-Ingush speech community
Russification
spelling
pronunciation
literacy and spheres of usage
Probable origin and prehistory of the Ingush language and people
Brief typological overview of the Ingush language
Introduction to this grammar
Segmental inventory
Orthography, tranliteration, transcription, practical orthography
Vowels
Phonetics and allophony (phoneme-by-phoneme description)
Phonological factors: Diphthongization; length; centralization.
Phonetic factors: Shortening; reduction; spread of rounding; palatalization
Consonants
Phonetics and allophony (phoneme-by-phoneme description)
Phonological factors: Ejectives; geminates; voicing;
Palatalization of velars
Open and closed syllables. The phonetics of schwa.
Pharyngealization
Phonetics: epiglottalization; Fo effects; length effects; onset delay effects
Attraction
Phonotactics
Consonant clusters
Distribution of consonants in roots
Pharyngealization: distribution relative to consonant classes, vowels, parts of speech
Phonological rules and alternations
Ablaut
Focus gemination
Affixal voicing
Word-final devoicing
Word-final gemination
Vowel reduction. Schwa.
The phonology of cliticization
Suprasegmentals
Stress. Tone? Prosody: NP�s; VP�s; clauses; sentences.
Case and number endings
Stem classes and declension classes
Gender
Number
Case. Clitics.
Functions and semantics of cases (overview and cross-references to syntax)
Attributive paradigm
Substantivized paradigm
Comparative and superlative
Personal
Reflexive
Demonstrative
Interrogative
Delimiting, indefinite, negative
Independent cardinal
Attributive cardinal
Ordinal
Overview: position classes
Deictic prefix
Local prefix
Preverb and lexical prefix
Serializing particle
Incorporated elements
Gender prefix
Lexical (main) verb
Auxiliary verb
Conjugation classes
Tenses
Overview: note on valence and tense
Simple present
Progressive presents: generic; ongoing witnessed; ongoing non-witnessed
Imperfect
Past progressive
Future
Imminent future
Recent past
Witnessed past
Non-witnessed past
Remote past
Moods
Indicative
Subordinate indicative
Imperative, hortative
Conditionals
Nonfinite forms
Infinitive
Verbal noun
Serial converbs
Other converbs
Participles
Aspect (inflectional)
Number
Negation
Irregular verbs (full listing with full paradigms)
Functions and semantics of inflectional categories. Lexical aspect. The meaning of each tense with each inflectional and lexical aspect class and with plural verbs.
Suffixal derivation: Nominalization. Abstract nouns.
Forms in *ig Frozen case forms and derivation of toponyms.
Compounding and incorporation
Compound and complex predicates
Nominal root plus auxiliary
Lexicalized serialization
Indeterminate root plus auxiliary
Valence-changing operations
Direct causative
Indirect causative
Double causative
Potential
Note on valence-related inflections
Valence-related suffixation
Stative verbs
Full listing of auxiliary verbs; their valence, number, and aspect; conjugation type
Basic. Denominal. Deverbal.
Modifiers. Order of modifying elements.
NP�s with numerals and other quantifiers: number agreement (intra-phrasal, external)
Argument functions and forms
Semi-arguments: goal, location, predicate nominal
Valence patterns
List (sizable but not exhaustive) of verbs and their valence patterns
Time
Location
Reason, cause, condition
Adverbial secondary predicates
NP coordination
Coordinate modifiers
PP coordination
Overview
Coordination
Coordination of whole clauses
VP coordination with reduction
Serialization and other argument sharing
Verb serialization
Complementation with argument sharing
Purpose clauses
Relativization
Other adnominal clauses
Chaining and other adverbial subordination
Adverbial chained clauses
Complementation
Overview of types:
Complementation with argument sharing
Complementation with discrete coreferential arguments
Non-coreferential complementation
Direct speech
Semi-direct speech; quotative forms
Asyndetic subordination
Survey of complementation, verb by verb
Gender agreement and gender resolution
Argument sharing
Coreferential deletion
Reflexivization
Local
Long-distance
Logophoric
Anaphoric pronominalization
Overview: clefting and questions
Yes-no
Content
Rhetorical
'like', 'as'
'more than', 'less than'
'too...', 'not ... enough', '... enough'
�very�, �not very�
Swadesh 100-word list
List of known verb roots
List of basic adjective roots
List of basic nominal roots
List of basic pronominal roots
Native Nakh-Daghestanian vocabulary
Nakh-specific vocabulary: native-like; Indo-European; Iranian; early Kartvelian
Ossetic, Georgian, Persian
Arabic
Russian
Lexical aspect classes
Distribution of auxiliaries
Distribution of gender (agreeing and non-agreeing verbs)
Distribution of lexical aspect and number
Transitivization and detransitivization
Selected semantic fields:
'break', 'cut'
'know'
�cover�, �fill�, �surround�, �apply�
motion and transport: �come�, �go�, �bring�, �take�, etc.
modal verbs and modality
Agentive and non-agentive verbs
Distribution of gender classes
Nouns with human referents and non-human gender
Kin terms
Adjectives and stative predicates
Selected semantic fields: Color terms; possible others
Formality and informality.
Questions and answers. Reduction; obligatory heads.
Requests, commands, suggestions
Structure of narrative discourse
Structure of expository discourse
Poetics: traditional devices; modern devices; genres
(illustrative short texts or extracts; enough to exemplify genres and make the grammar self-contained, but publication of a full text archive will be undertaken separately)
Bibliography
List of suffixes
Subject index (will also include alternative terminology and -- following the model of Haspelmath�s grammar of Lezghi -- standard terms for phenomena lacking in Ingush and a note to the effect that they are lacking)